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No wonder, Sir, that he is vain a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
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Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.
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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
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To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it and seeing one is quite enough.
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I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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